PARSHA-PIX Parshat Ki Teitzei

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Busy, busy sedra. Upper left: Soldier in a tank, represents the many times "military" issues are mentioned in the sedra - The Beautiful Captive, the cleanliness of an army camp, exemption from service for a groom for the first year of marriage...
The warning lights are to prevent someone getting injured from a hazard in one's property. This is the flip side of the mitzva of MAAKEH.
The boot represents CHALITZA and the whole subject of YIBUM.
The nest with the eggs is the scene immediately after someone has fulfilled the mitzva to send away the mother bird.
The couple under the CHUPA stands for several topics related to marriage.
The hands holding the wallet, taking out money is for the different monetary mitzvot in the sedra - not to borrow with interest. To pay a laborer on time. To fulfill one's pledges...
There is a cluster of grapes on top of a stalk of wheat to represent K'LAI KEREM.
The toilet is for the requirement of having sanitary facilities outside an army base.
The string around the finger is for the various mitzvot to remember - what happened to Miriam, being in Mitzrayim, Amalek.
The grave-marker is for the mitzva to bury our dead, and reasonable quickly.
The donkey is for the many references to either donkey or other animal. The donkey gets lost, he is overburdening, he cannot pull a plow together with an ox...
The barbells with different weights on each end represents false weights and measures. Forbidden to use to defraud someone, and even forbidden to possess.
The aardvark and giraffe are tied together. That is a Torah violation, even according to Rambam who says that for the Torah law to be violated, one animal has to be kosher and the other not.
There is a time clock representing paying the worker on time, and also the mitzvot related to workers' rights and employers' rights, as well.
There's a Purim grogger in the lower right corner. Stands for ZACHOR and especially wiping out Amalek. This is the origin of making noise when Haman's name is read.
KEY = KI, the word that starts the sedra off and appears 48 times in the sedra. That's a lot.
The apple tree can be for the rules of SHICH'CHA or the location of a nest, or for the rules to allow apple pickers to eat during their breaks.
That leaves three unexplained items, which are to be added to the regular TTriddles.

TTRIDDLES...
are Torah Tidbits-style riddles on Parshat HaShavua (sometimes on the calendar). They are found in the hard-copy of TT scattered throughout, usually at the bottom of different columns. In the electronic versions of TT, they are found all together at the end of the ParshaPix-TTriddles section. The best solution set submitted each week (there isn't always a best) wins a double prize a CD from Noam Productions and/or a gift (game, puzzle, book, etc.) from Big Deal

Last issue’s (SHO-F'TIM) TTriddles:
[1] If we counted until 3 or 180 instead of 50, we would have this
[2] Eliezer, a person who intentionally does not bring KP, Moshe Rabeinu, a Zakein Mamrei, a poor borrower
[3] Any Olim from the States this week?
[4] And stirs the sea - in addition to what?
[5 Yitzchak Avinu, Yiftach, the wise one, the Chafetz Chayim... and whom?
[6] [7] and [8] Three unexplained elements of the ParshaPix.

And the envelope, please...
[1] When we count until (but not including) 50 from the second night of Pesach, we end up with the holiday of Shavuot in its proper time. If we counted to 3 or to 180, we'd end up with Shavuot being during Pesach or Sukkot respectively. That would give us REGEL B'REGEL (D'varim 19:21).
[2] The word V'HA'ISH, and the man, occurs 17 times in Tanach, including 5 times in the Torah. This TTriddle refers to the Torah V'HA'ISHes only. The fourth one, Zakein Mamrei, is the one from Shoftim.
[3] This TTriddle is in honor of NEFESH B'NEFESH and the Olim that they have brought home. This phrase also occurs in D'varim 19:21 (see [1]).
[4] ANOCHI HASHEM ELOKECHA occurs 5 times in Tanach, 4 in the two versions of the Aseret HaDibrot and once in T'hilim referring to He Who took us out of Egypt. There are another 3 V'ANOCHI HASHEM ELOKECHAs, one of which is in the haftara of Parshat Shoftim. That's the one that refers to His stirring up the sea. In addition to what, would be "taking us out of Mitzrayim".
[5] This one is similar to [2]. The answer is MI HA'ISH. This phrase occurs 6 times in Tanach, 4 of which are listed in the TTriddle. The other two occurrences (plus two more UMI HA'ISHes) are from Shoftim, all in the "speech" of the Shotrim to the potential soldiers, referring to the ones excused from battle
[6] Martin Luther King, Jr. is in a negation circle because he is a non-Jewish King, who may not be appointed over the People of Israel.
[7] There is a peace symbol in a speech bubble, representing the mitzva to first offer peace to nations we intend to fight, before doing battle. (Exceptions are Amon and Moav.)
[8] Recycling symbol stands for the prohibition of BAL TASHCHIT, not to be wasteful. Recycling goes a long way in countering BAL TASHCHIT.

This week's TTriddles:
[1] 1A, 2S, 4D, 4F... and 2M?
[2] The Torah and [L] the U.S. Navy refer to it with different parts of the body.
[3] This mental process is involved in both a mitzva and a sin from Ki Teitzei
[4] plus 3 elements from the ParshaPixPuzzle

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